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the Board did get such a measure passed through Parliament 

 in a satisfactory manner. 



The Valuations Committee, of which Mr. Christopher 

 Middleton was Chairman in 1903, was re-appointed to examine 

 the various scales of compensation then in force, and to report 

 to what extent the recommendations of the 1903 Committee 

 had been adopted throughout the country. The Committee 

 presented their report on 14th July, and stated 



" that in a considerable number of counties it has become the 

 practice to base compensation for the unexhausted value of 

 feeding stuffs on the scale set out in the report above referred to, 

 or on Voelcker and Hall's Tables on which it was founded, and 

 which are practically the same, or else on some modification of 

 Lawes' and Gilbert's Tables, and that there is a growing ten- 

 dency to adopt one or the other of these tables. Your Committee 

 regret, however, that some Valuers' Associations still continue 

 to adopt a ' cost ' basis. This is more particularly the case 

 with the older Associations, and, as a rule, it is principally the 

 older members of these Associations who most strongly oppose 

 any reform. 



" Whatever opinion valuers may have as to what system should 

 form the basis of compensation, the fact remains that the tables 

 of Voelcker and Hall still hold the field, have never been seriously 

 controverted, and are generally admitted to be as accurate as 

 any figures demonstrating facts which cannot be actually weighed 

 and measured can be. 



" One -serious objection which was taken at the time to the 

 adoption of either of these scales was that they would be in need 

 of frequent, if not annual, revision. Till now this has not proved 

 to be the case, as both Dr. Voelcker and Mr. Hall consider that 

 up to the present there is no need for any revision." 



The Committee further reported that out of twenty-six 

 scales known to be in use in different localities in 1908, thirteen 

 were based on manurial values, while the basis of three others 

 was not known. This compared with twenty-one scales in 

 use in 1903, of which only six were based on manurial values , 

 while three others were on that occasion also withheld from 

 the Committee. 



1911. 



Towards the end of this year a case,^known as Kedwell versus 

 Flint, showed that the Agricultural Holdings Acts of 1895, 

 1906, and 1908 failed to give security for the compensation 



